Kissing The Pink have all but disappeared from the British music scene since their first and only UK hit Last Film in 1983. "I
think we're a dim memory because of our name," says singer and guitarist Nick Whitecross, who admits it
now tends to be simply KTP on album sleeves, "for moral reasons".
Memories will be a little sharper outside the UK where, thanks to three albums and several singles, KTP have had European success and
a no. 1 dance single in the US.
On their fourth LP which they are just finishing, KTP have moved into the computer age: "We've almost stopped playing now," admits
keyboard player Jon Kingsley Hall who also sings. "We just spend all the time programming, sampling and
mixing things up."
Whitecross goes on: "Grabbing bits of sound from wherever we can... the basis of what we do comes from working out grooves and rhythms
on machines and then we just play and sample things over those." Among the sounds that emerge on their new product are snatches of US
radio all the way from crackles at the end of the dial to "fantastic mad preachers."
The LP has been taking shape at Crescent Studios in Bath with the working title Post Modern. "It's like a mixture of house and
hip-hop grooves with everything we've done in the past," says Kingsley Hall. The first single, Stand Up has been produced by
Phil Harding of PWL, the rest they have produced themselves.
Kissing The Pink are now signed to WEA along with other ex-Magnet acts like Chris Rea. The band are relieved: "We stand a chance of
becoming very successful now because we get a lot of exposure."